Creating Shapes in Civil and Naval Architecture

Horst Nowacki, Dr.-Ing. (1963) in Naval Architecture, Technical University of Berlin, Prof. of Ship Design at TU Berlin (1974-1998), has published about 200 articles and books on naval architecture and ship theory including Computational Geometry for Ships, co-authored with M.I.G. Bloor and B. Oleksiewicz (World Scientific Publ., Singapore, 1995). Wolfgang Lefèvre, Ph.D. (1972) in Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin, Professor for Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin and Senior Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, until 2006. He has published extensively on history of philosophy, science, and technology including Picturing Machines (MIT Press, 2004).

List of Figures

Preface

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INTRODUCTION

1. Shape Creation Knowledge in Civil and Naval Architecture, Horst Nowacki



ANTIQUITY

2. On the Use of Design in Ancient Mediterranean Ship Construction, Patrice Pomey

3. Were the Hittites Able to Build a Replica of an Egyptian Ship According to Their Own Drawings?, Lucien Basch

Reply to Lucien Basch by Patrice Pomey

4. Markings and Pegs: Clues to Geometrical Procedures of Roman Naval Architecture?, Ronald Bockius

5. Ancient Greek and Roman Architects’ Approach to Curvature – The Corinthian Capital, Entasis and Amphitheaters, Mark Wilson Jones



MIDDLE AGES

6. “To Design” and “to Build” Mediaeval Ships (Fifth to Fifteenth Centuries) – The Application of Knowledge Held in Common with Civil Architecture, or in Isolation?, Eric Rieth

7. Boat and Boat House. The Conceptional Origins of Clinker Boats and Boat-Shaped Halls of the Fourth –Eleventh Centuries in Scandinavia, Ole Crumlin-Pedersen

8. Gothic and Renaissance Design Strategies in Stonecutting, Enrique Rabasa Díaz and José Calvo López

9. On Late-Gothic Vault Geometry, Jos Tomlow



MODERN ERA

10. The Shipbuilding Text of Michael of Rhodes, David McGee

11. Naval Architecture Digitalized – Introducing Arithmetic and Geometry into Late Mediaeval Shipwrightry, Ulrich Alertz

12. Pregnant Columns. From Word to Shape, Antonio Becchi

13. From One Curve to Another or the Problem of Changing Coordinates in Stereotomic Layouts, Joël Sakarovitch

14. The Squinch of Anet, Martina Lenz

Conclusion



APPENDICES

A. From Words to Technical Practices: Moulds and Naval Architecture in the Middle Ages, Eric Rieth

B. The Rare Traces of Constructional Procedures in “Practical Geometries”, Jens Høyrup

C. Draughting Curves Used in Ship Design, Jobst Lessenich

D. Bibliographical Notes on Historical Metrology, Compiled by Jobst Lessenich



Index